Nameless Lake traces with forensic intensity the moments that shape our lives but go unregarded because we don’t know how to talk about them.
On the surface, his move to the isolated village on the coast makes perfect sense. But the experience is an increasingly unsettling one for Timothy Bucchanan. A dead man no one will discuss.... Læs mere
The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the... Læs mere
In Forgetting Is How We Survive, people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for lost futures. Each character faces a turning point – an event that will move their life from one path to another, and every event casts a shadow.
These are tales from the twilit scablands – stories of austerity, masochism, migration, as well as unexpected laughter, music, even bubbles.
Sennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgshire, only to discover... Læs mere
Rob A. Mackenzie’s new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary ranging from the murk of political engagement in an age of offence sensibility, to the bleached-out culture of munificent late-capitalism.
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is haunted by loss yet these poems defy despair by stepping emphatically into the liberating realm of strangeness.
Becky Varley-Winter’s striking debut explores themes of daring, danger and risk in poems that are packed with imagery from the natural world. Complex, hypnotic, memorable – this collection introduces a significant new voice.
Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and immensely readable, Williams’s picaresque medieval fantasy is a reader’s delight. A sweeping yarn through the dark ages filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, witchcraft, failed promise, wisdom and regret.
A strikingly beautiful collection from poet and writer Richard Skinner. Haunting lyrics of great formal skills, packed with poignancy and elegance. A book to be read, and memorised, that will delight this author’s extensive readership.
A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison and finds his old gang locked in a brutal civil war. Against his wishes, he is quickly drawn... Læs mere